Is the EU paying Hungarian oligarchs to keep land empty? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Ahead of #RefugeeDay check out our #OpenAccess #RefugeeStudies: bit.ly/3eL6nYk ‪Includes authors: @heikedrotbohm.bsky.social‬ @nasimaselim.bsky.social‬ @chbrauner.bsky.social @duerrbortolotti.bsky.social @philiphahn.bsky.social @amandalubit.bsky.social @ianmickcook.bsky.social & more!

Reminder: next week we will have the pleasure of watching the short (12 mins) film Open Unit by Paul Antick. Discussion will be led by Vlad Naumescu. June 5th. 12:30 p.m. CEST Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

It’s a brilliant film

Come gather with us for another AnthroKino in which we’ll watch Open Unit by Paul Antick. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker. When? Jun 5th 2025 12:30 CEST Where? us06web.zoom.us/.../register... More info: allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-o...

In his review of Mirjam Twigt's Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope Among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan, Abdulla Majeed highlights the role of digitality in (dis)connecting and (dis)ordering refugees' lives.

Out today: 'Being #fungible: they only want us from the neck down', a thought-provoking piece by @jamescuffe.bsky.social and @fionamur.bsky.social allegralaboratory.net/being-fungib... (and good to reconnect in this space, too!)

Sarah Phillips' poem "In times like these" now out on Allegra allegralaboratory.net/in-times-lik...

NEW thread exploring regulation as a contested sociocultural practice, generative of social worlds. The thread examines the epistemologies and ethics forged by regulation and trajectories of (un)doing regulation in a changing world. allegralaboratory.net/category/the...

This thread from @allegralab.bsky.social builds on a panel at the EASA biannual conference in July 2024, which was entitled ‘Doing and Undoing Regulation’. The thread examines regulation as a contested sociocultural practice, generative of social worlds. allegralaboratory.net/category/the...

Hot off the press at Allegra Lab, @andreaboccardi.bsky.social 's review of Sidney Xu Lu's new book on the entanglement of settler colonial practices between Japan and Brazil refutes the Manichean divide between the West and the Rest: allegralaboratory.net/collaborativ... @ucpress.bsky.social

Allegra cofounder and editor @juliebillaud.bsky.social speaks with @danjgraham.bsky.social at the Geneva Graduate Institute on the need to boldly defend academic freedom in contexts of intensifying authoritarianism and censorship.

this will be fun (I hope)

OLIve (Open Learning Initiative) is an amazing education programme for displaced people in Budapest. We have been nominated for a social innovation award by Sozial Marie. www.sozialmarie.org/en/projects/... Once you've voted you'll need to confirm your vote via an email you'll receive.

Excited to watch this film tomorrow!

Super happy to to see this co-created article published. 'Mapping the diversity & transformative potential of approaches to sustainable just cities' is guided by the question, 'How can cities be more sustainable and just?' urbantransformations.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Looking forward to speaking at 'Precarity and the Teaching of Anthropology' Tuesday 21 May (TODAY!) at 2-4 (UK time) 3-5 (CEST). Great line up of speakers! therai.org.uk/events/past-...

Really looking forward to speaking at The Alternative University: Seeking Shared Solutions to the Global Higher Education Crisis! An amazing line up of speakers. In person tickets at UCL are sold out (!) but it's still possible to attend online. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-altern...

We are launching a book and you are all invited: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

What could the future of scholarly podcasts look like? Check out this LSE Impact Blog post by @ianmickcook.bsky.social to learn more about academic podcasters' work and motivations. @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

I had a great chat with the brilliant Lori Beckstead about my recent/old book 'Scholarly Podcasting' on the Podcast Studies Podcast! 🎧 🤯 🎧 🤯 🎧 🤯 🎧 🤯 🎧 🤯 🎧 🤯 🎧 🤯 🎧 🤯 🎧 🤯 🎧 🤯 🎧 🤯 🎧 🤯 🎧 🤯 podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pod...

and my colleagues are at it, too! allegralaboratory.net/haile-the-co... check out this #fieldnote from #Freetown

I wrote something about our current project and #climateadaptation in coastal cities, #fieldnotes to follow at a loose pace: allegralaboratory.net/climate-prec... @allegralab.bsky.social

#UrbanStudies are hiring: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell... join an engaged team and teach cool students!

...and a #postdoc position! jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

The amazing Lori Beckstead, the awesome Hannah McGregor, and the average Ian Cook (me) wrote a book called 'Podcast or Perish: Peer Review and Knowledge Creation for the 21st Century' According to the blurb The book is currently available with 10% discount: www.bloomsbury.com/us/podcast-o...

When our own colleagues start censoring themselves for fear of being sanctioned, we may want to ask: what is scholarship good for? Our latest editorial.... allegralaboratory.net/why-framing-...

Anyone anthro out there fancy writing a short note or a longer essay on the farmers’ protest in Europe? A good critical anthropological take seems to be missing from the discussion…! [email protected]

BODIES IS OUT - OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT www.otherwisemag.com/bodies This issue celebrates bodies; in their imperfect shape and finite nature. Bodies filling space, or struggling to situate themselves within it. Bodies defining times and by time bound.

Academic podcasting opens up processes of knowledge creation, frees scholarship from for-profit publishers, and suggests new ways of speaking to publics. I recommend some episodes of the amazing Fresh Ed podcast that show this! freshedpodcast.com/recommended/...

Who is the author of what?!? allegralaboratory.net/authorship-i...

Optimism – as an orientation imbued with hope – can be both an individual disposition, or something collective.

NEW ESSAY! ‘From Despair to Where? Anthropology, critique, political practice and the case for radical optimism’ for @allegralab.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/PXtHkjjHkcN7...